Mrs. Ray Dudley was born in Georgia in 1896. Her family came to Houston when her father became the minister of the First Baptist Church. She attended Baylor University and met her husband Ray L. Dudley. In 1917, Mr. Dudley, became editor of the...

Letter from C. F. Richardson, Sr., The Houston Observer Pub., to the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, dated June 1, 1918. Richardson writes that a group of fifty men met the previous evening at...

Letter from C. F. Richardson, Sr. providing the national office of the NAACP with names of prominent Anglo-American citizens who might be interested in an organization such as the Tennessee Law and Order League. The letter is dated December 14,...

Letter from the office secretary of the National NAACP to C. F. Richardson, Sr., enclosing an executive authorization for the Houston branch of the NAACP for their records. The Houston branch has already been granted a charter.

Henry Maresh was a local supervisor of the WPA project researching the history of Houston. The researchers combed through all available documentation, including extant newspapers, previously published books, and legal records, and extracted factual...

Contains the annual report for the Public Schools of the Independent School District of Houston for the fiscal year 1916 - 1917. Annual report contains remarks from the school district superintendents, a list of graduates from the districts schools...

Augustin Villagomez came to Houston in the 1920s. His first job was in the V.A. Hospital, working as an Order for cleaning rooms for 38 cents per hour. After saving some money, he went to Morelia to marry his girlfriend, Anavelia Rivera. They had 3...

Henry Maresh was a local supervisor of the WPA project researching the history of Houston. The researchers combed through all available documentation, including extant newspapers, previously published books, and legal records, and extracted factual...

Collection of home designs by the Russell Brown Company. Each design is accompanied by a photograph of a house built in Houston or in Dallas. Please refer to the Index for plan numbers and addresses of pictured buildings, when known.